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Terrorists know how to read weakness. So does Saddam Hussein. Six months ago, when Saddam blatantly violated the arms-inspection regimen he had agreed to after the Gulf War, Clinton let Kofi Annan broker a paper deal and called off the U.S. military buildup...
Back to you, Kofi: Iraq has refused to cooperate with Richard Butler, and on Thursday it stopped a U.N. team from conducting inspections. The big question now is whether Baghdad will play ball with Kofi Annan. "The February agreement that averted a military confrontation specified that the Secretary General would be the final mediator in disputes between Baghdad and the U.N. weapons inspection team," explains TIME reporter Stuart Stogel. "If Iraq refuses to abide by Kofi's ruling in the matter, we'll be back in a crisis situation...
...Security Council condemned Iraq's action after a briefing by Butler on Thursday, and urged Annan to find a mutually acceptable solution to the breakdown. Iraq may not, this time, be able to count on its traditional Security Council supporters Russia, China and France to restrain U.S. pressure. The reason? Evidence that Iraq put chemical warheads on missiles. Says Stogel: "Some of Iraq's backers are saying privately that once this evidence is confirmed, there's very little they can do for Baghdad...
...invent him. Just as the President looks in danger of being overwhelmed by the Lewinsky scandal, Saddam -- as if on cue -- rattles his saber and launches a new crisis. The Iraqi leader on Wednesday suspended all cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors, threatening the February deal forged by Kofi Annan that resolved the last tense standoff (which, conveniently for Clinton, coincided with the Monica eruption...
WHOM YOU'LL SEE The recognizable and important, and the important but unrecognizable. Among the Davos '98 attendees were Kofi Annan, Anatoli Chubais, Bill Gates, Newt Gingrich, George Soros...